Bar Reviews
IMAGE: jenniferplitzko.coAlberta’s new Donnie Vegas (1203 NE Alberta St., donnie.vegas)
isn’t the Vegas that stays in Vegas. It is the Vegas that endures in
Sammy Davis Jr. films and faded m
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The first thing you notice when entering the South Waterfront’s first and only gastropub, The Groaning Board (3500 SW River Parkway, 971-254-9785, thegroaningboardpdx.com),
is how many light bul
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Vegan punk spots in Portland are like the
Hydra. Cut the head off, and more will grow to take its place. Fast on
the heels of Slabtown’s closure, punk-metal Black Water (835 NE Broadway, 546-1
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Until recently, it was impossible to get a beer with your movie in Lake Oswego if you weren’t popping a bottle in your Titanic-themed man cave. Thank God, you can now show off your expensive taste
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In 2013, when WW published its first Beer Guide, it
was pretty easy to list the city’s serious beer bars. Even here in
Beervana, each quadrant had only a few destinations with an
ever-changi
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There’s something bittersweet about a shiny new bar naming
a drink after the previous occupant. In the case of the Blue Monk,
doubly so. Formerly a jazz club, it ran into problems after hostin
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Likewise (3564 SE Hawthorne Blvd., likewise.website)
is part bar, part performance art—a callback to the money-free,
improvised ’90s, when Miranda July was still making origami out of
Port
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Habesha Lounge (801 NE Broadway, 284-4299)
is either a party on top of an Ethiopian restaurant, or it’s a bar that
stumbled into a patio party. Loosely open Tuesdays through Saturdays,
it mo
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